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FAQ: What is Whole Plant Extract, Broad Spectrum & CBD Isolate?

The whole plant refers to the entire bud with some leaves and possibly some stems. The buds are what is used to obtain extracts that are being compared to the isolated, pure CBD or THC cannabinoids.

Fullspectrum CBD is full of all the terpenes, cannabinoids, flavonoids, and fatty acids found in hemp, all of which have therapeutic value of their own and help create what’s know as the entourage effect. Broadspectrum CBD is a little bit of both. Broadspectrum CBD is fullspectrum CBD without any THC.

Full spectrum CBD quite simply means the product contains many cannabinoids beyond CBD, along with other elements of the cannabis or hemp plant, including naturally-occurring terpenes, essential vitamins, fatty acids, protein, and more. 

It’s worth emphasizing that CBD itself is entirely non-psychoactive. While full spectrum oil contains small amounts of THC, it does not contain enough THC to produce any psychoactive effects.

The alternative to full spectrum is CBD isolate which contains only CBD – the CBD molecule is chemically isolated from everything else in the plant. CBD isolate is cannabidiol isolated and then refined to strip out any additional cannabinoids, terpenes, and plant components found in the hemp plant. The final product is a fine white powder that contains around 99% cannabidiol.

 CBD isolates have no identifiable amount of THC, the well-known chemical found in cannabis that creates that euphoric high, and they’re stripped of the other beneficial and nutritional compounds like terpenes, flavonoids, vitamins, and protein mentioned above.

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Researchers say CBD could provide vital treatment for coronavirus

As researchers and doctors rush to understand the novel coronavirus, sometimes new evidence contradicts old claims. Cannabis represents a main topic where scientists have spun 180 degrees in discussing how the plant interacts with COVID-19. Public health officials announced back in March that marijuana smokers and vapers were more at risk to contract and spread the coronavirus.

Lung health experts still don’t recommend inhaling any combustible material like tobacco or marijuana, due to the inflammation caused in your airways. However, cannabis has emerged as an unlikely candidate in preventing and treating COVID-19 symptoms.

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One preliminary study suggests CBD may help to fight Covid-19

Following a study conducted at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada, researchers believe that strong cannabis strains could prove valuable in preventing or treating coronavirus infections.

Their study led them to hypothesize that those extracts high in CBD could be leveraged to combat Covid-19 infections by modulating levels of ACE2 (angiotensin-converting enzyme II) in certain “gateway” tissues.

These include lung tissue, oral/nasal mucosa, gastrointestinal tract, kidney, and testes. The researchers believe that modulating ACE2 levels in these areas with CBD could help to decrease people’s susceptibility to Covid-19. As the coronavirus can only enter a human host with a receptor, i.e. ACE2, targeting these could reduce the risk of infection significantly.

Its goal is to determine whether CBD can increase the effectiveness of corticosteroids (a key treatment for autoimmune illnesses) or allow for steroid dosages to reduce while enhancing their effect.

The research conducted by Stero Therapeutics and the University of Lethbridge’s team could open the doors to unexpected new ways to prevent, and treat, coronavirus. However, further studies will be required to verify the research and facilitate the creation of CBD-centric solutions suitable for COVID-19 patients.

Whatever the outcome, the need for an effective treatment is urgent. 

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Feeling Stress and Anxiety?

Feeling stress and anxiety in small doses is normal and natural, but too much of it at once can negatively affect you over time. It’s in your own best interest to manage your feelings and emotions healthily so you can maintain control over your thoughts and actions. For example, a natural remedy for reducing stress and anxiety is to purchase CBD from True Natural Oils and use it regularly to help you feel better fast.

You’ll find life to be more rewarding and not so chaotic and frustrating. Let this be a time for you to focus on your own personal growth and discovering new habits that help you to live a more fulfilling existence. You’ll begin to see your worries slowly dissipate and that you have more mental space for positive thoughts. Once your mental health is in a better place, you’ll feel able to tackle anything.

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Traumatic Brain Injuries

Traumatic brain injury affects a high number of young adults and their hospitalization is still a significant public challenge. During neuronal damage a complex series of mechanisms becomes activated. Energy failure leads to calcium overload, depolarization of neurons and release of neurotransmitters with consecutive excitotoxicity, induced through overstimulation from excitatory receptors like NMDA receptor.

Injured neuronal tissue releases pro-inflammatory cytokines leading to migration of inflammatory cells to the damaged site and inflammation.  Cannabinoids (CBD) positively affect cellular and molecular processes during ischemic or traumatic brain injury and were shown to be protective mostly via microglial cells.

The number of damaged neurons was significantly reduced after treatment with endocannabinoids, like N-arachidonoyl dopamine, (2-AG) or PEA associated with altered microglial cell number.  2-AG was shown to induce protection after neuronal lesion and to reduce the amount of tumor necrosis factor α released from LPS activated microglial cells.

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CBD is often used for anxious pets

The increased demand for wellness and self-care products during the coronavirus pandemic has made more people curious about trying CBD, even though it has yet to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

Separate from the actual virus, quarantine itself brings its own share of ills, such as anxiety, depression, sleeping problems, muscle pain from inactivity and, of course, crippling boredom. Although CBD is on its way to be clinically proven to reduce anxiety, reducing anxiety is a key selling point for CBD, so it makes sense that in a time of public uncertainty more people would be open to experimenting with it.

As many of us are home with our beloved pets, Animals also have an endocannabinoid system, CBD is often used for anxious pets. Many CBD product lines now include items specifically for animals; there are also CBD brands dedicated entirely to them, including Natural Pet Oils , which has separate product lines for dogs, cats and an array of pets.

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CBD Helps!

CBD continues to be a constant in helping people through this uncertain time. This is precisely why CBD stores should be considered essential: If hemp and CBD products can be sold in other businesses classified as critical, the government must recognize on some level that access to CBD is essential. Still others pointed to the inconsistencies between how marijuana and alcohol have been treated under quarantine in comparison to CBD. If liquor and marijuana are considered essential, why isn’t CBD?

Consumers rely on CBD for everyday wellness and there are dozens of stories from CBD consumers whose health and well-being deteriorate markedly when they do not have access to their daily CBD regimen.

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True Natural Oils is Striving to Move Forward in Development

True Natural Oils is Striving to Move Forward in Development

The well-known saying for those hawking baseball scorecards might be just as appropriate in the fledgling CBD category. With more and more players entering the marketplace and many predicting that the category is finally ready to explode in sales, retailers may need a scorecard to know who the players are in the marketplace.

According to Boulder, Colo.-based BDS Analytics and Market Research, the collective market for CBD sales, which includes cosmetics, health products, food and beverage, pet products, skin care, and pharmaceuticals, is expected to exceed $20 billion in the United States by 2024.

We at True Natural Oils still are waiting for the Food and Drug Administration & develop regulations related to CBD in food and dietary supplements. The FDA maintains that there is a lack of scientific information supporting the use of CBD in food, and also noted that the agency is continuing to explore pathways for various types of CBD products to be marketed.

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Daily Regimens

Increasingly, patients are asking about or have already begun to add CBD to their daily regimens. What evidence is there for the efficacy of CBD?

Small trials in humans have examined the use of high-dose CBD (typically 300 to 1,000 mg per day, taken orally) in social anxiety in a simulated public speaking model (Bergamaschi et al., 2011; Zuardi et al., 2017).

Eating disorders are another area of interest, as the endocannabinoid system is a key regulator of appetite, but have not been examined in clinical trials. Finally, the antidepressant potential of CBD (possibly due to 5HT1A agonism, similar to some antidepressant medications) has been explored in more clinical studies with impressive results in relieving anxiety.

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Let’s Figure Out A Way to Play Life Better

Let’s Figure Out A Way to Play Life Better

Psychiatric clinicians are often asked to treat patients with evidence-based methods, but the evidence to guide practice does not always reflect the reality that they confront every day.

Currently, many patients are using cannabinoids, particularly cannabidiol (CBD), to treat their own symptoms, ranging from insomnia to anxiety to depression. What doses of CBD should they be using? What route? How will CBD interact with other medications?

The mammalian endocannabinoid system includes the neurotransmitters anandamide (AEA) and 2-Arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG), their synthesizing and degrading enzymes, and their activity as partial and full agonists, respectively, at the Cannabinoid 1 and 2 (CB1, CB2) receptors. How this neurotransmitter system works as a retrograde signaling mechanism to fine tune other neurotransmitters, such as serotonin, norepinephrine, dopamine, and GABA. In clinical settings, finding the action of CBD on the endocannabinoid system will be an attempt to make rational choices about the role of exogenous cannabinoids in psychiatric practice.